Viewing time measures of sexual orientation in Samoan cisgender men who engage in sexual interactions with Fa'afafine
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Date
2015
Authors
Petterson, Lanna J.
Dixson, Barnaby J.
Little, Anthony C.
Vasey, Paul L.
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Public Library of Science
Abstract
Androphilia refers to attraction to adultmales, whereas gynephilia refers to attraction to adult
females. The current study employed self-report and viewing time (response time latency)
measures of sexual attraction to determine the sexual orientation of Samoan cisgender men
(i.e., males whose gender presentation and identity is concordant with their biological sex)
who engage in sexual interactions with transgender male androphiles (known locally as fa’afafine)
compared to: (1) Samoan cisgender men who only engage in sexual interactions with
women, and (2) fa’afafine. As expected, both measures indicated that cisgender men who
only engaged in sexual interactions with women exhibited a gynephilic pattern of sexual attraction,
whereas fa’afafine exhibited an androphilic one. In contrast, both measures indicated that
cisgendermen who engaged in sexual interactions with fa’afafine demonstrated a bisexual
pattern of sexual attraction. Most of the cisgender men who exhibited bisexual viewing times
did not engage in sexual activity with both men and women indicating that the manner in
which bisexual patterns of sexual attraction manifest behaviorally vary from one culture to
the next.
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Sherpa Romeo green journal: open access
Keywords
Samoan cisgender men , Androphilia , Gynephilia , Fa'afafine , Bisexual , Sexual interaction , Sexual activity
Citation
Petterson, L. J., Dixson, B. J., Little, A. C., & Vasey, P. L. (2015). Viewing time measures of sexual orientation in Samoan cisgender men who engage in sexual interactions with Fa'afafine. PLoS ONE, 10(2), e0116529. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0116529